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North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
About
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.
Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.
We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.
Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.
We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Lead Solutions Developer
Accepting applications until: 03-Dec-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 03-Dec-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Estuary Point, Broughton or Parkway
- Town
- Bolton
- Postcode
- BL1 5DD
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 2 years (Until 31/12/202637.5)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Corporate
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are committed to providing services which embrace diversity and which promote equality of opportunity. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet our minimum selection criteria at each stage of the selection process. We will not tolerate discrimination on any of the following: gender, marital status, sexual orientation, race, colour, nationality, religion, age, disability, working pattern, caring responsibilities trade union activity or political beliefs-or any other grounds.
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of staff from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. We encourage applications from all backgrounds to improve the diversity of our workforce and to better reflect the communities we serve to provide the right care, at the right time, in the right place; every time.
The Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if a large number of applications are received.
Due to the volume of applications received for our advertisements, we will only contact those candidates shortlisted for interview via email; we aim to do this within 4 weeks of the closing date. If you do not receive the email, it will be that you have not been shortlisting on this occasion. When applying for this position, it is essential that you read the job description and person specification fully. Please use the supporting information space to demonstrate your ability to undertake this role, drawing on your skills, knowledge and experience.
We also offers a range of excellent benefits including a pension scheme, up to 33 days Annual leave (exclusive of bank holidays), training and development opportunities, access to NHS discounts, Car Lease Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, NHS Mortgages and Childcare Vouchers.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a Lead Solutions Developer as part of the Innovation and Delivery team within Digital at NWAS. The Lead Solutions Developer is a new role we are introducing, to provide technical oversight and leadership to the Solutions Development Team.
This is an important role, which will ensure that all our internally developed systems are built to the latest standards whilst remaining safe and resilient. The successful candidate will have a strong range of technical skills and knowledge of application development gained through substantial previous experience, preferably within the healthcare setting.
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Within the role, you will work closely with the Solution Developers, Product Manager, UX Designer, Technical Architect and the wider Innovation and Delivery team to support the work of one of the UK’s largest ambulance services.
Be Think Do is our leadership philosophy. NWAS is investing in developing a nurturing, positive and thriving culture, recruiting leaders that demonstrate our Be Think Do behaviours. There are several stages for finding the right candidate for the position, these stages include,
· Closing date – 03/12/2024
· Completion of psychometric assessment – 01/10/2021 to 04/10/2021
· Assessment Centre & Professional discussion – 08/10/2021
· At each stage you will be advised if you are to progress to the next stage
Working for our organisation
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.
Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.
We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.
Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.
We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description. If you would like to know more about the role, then please get in touch with Matt Dugdale (Head of Innovation) at [email protected].
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Person specification
Skills / competencies
Essential criteria
- / competencies • Excellent communication skills – verbal, written, presentational and interpersonal
- Excellent skills in the area of JavaScript, C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, RESTful APIs, SPA JavaScript frameworks, SQL Server
- Excellent skills in implementing software development design patterns MVC, IOC, Separation of concerns
- Excellent skills in HTML5, CSS and user interface creation
- Well presented, flexible, positive, resilient, methodical, team player
- Able to produce clinical business requirements and high level design deliverables
- Strong problem solving approach to live issue resolution
- Able to learn new technologies and IT systems quickly through both self study
- Ability to motivate, performance manage and develop teams and individuals
Qualification and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Educated to MSc level in relevant subject; or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in this area and currently working towards a Master’s degree
- Evidence of relevant CPD activities
- Evidence of management experience
- Experience of professional and engaging report writing for and presentation to senior management audiences and the development of other documents such as research findings, options appraisals, risk analysis, and proposals
- Have demonstrable working experience in digital development practices such as: systems analysis, development, Agile / Devops, programming, testing, enterprise architecture and project management
- Substantial knowledge of the full SDLC
- Substantial knowledge of system integration interfaces and the principles between data exchange between systems
- Substantial digital literacy in network principles, client/server models and databases
- Substantial knowledge of automated testing processes and an understanding of how this fits within the overall delivery lifecycle
- Excellent knowledge of defect management and structured approaches to resolution of issues
- Knowledge of project management and methodologies, e.g. PRINCE 2
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience in developing web software using .NET C# and ASP technology stack
- Experience working with Single Page Application (SPA) frameworks in JavaScript
- Substantial supervisory experience leading development teams
- Substantial experience of Agile development methodologies (eg. Scrum, Kanban etc)
- Substantial experience of code version control using Git
- Substantial experience of automated testing and developer testing practices
- Substantial experience involving close working relationships with business users
- Experience supporting business applications inside and outside working hours
- Experience of producing documentation and reports to senior management
- Extensive track record of continuous mentoring experience
Values and behaviours
Essential criteria
- Strong organisational and time management skills, and evidence of working in a systematic manner
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Confident networker
- Ability to assess and interpret complicated and conflicting information and use judgement where appropriate
- Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Car driver able to work across the North West footprint
- Flexible approach to working and requirement to work unsociable hours in line with the needs of the service
- Working together – demonstrate collaborative and inclusive working and challenge behaviour that is not inclusive or acceptable
- Being at our best – professional and adaptable and takes pride in work
- Making a difference – act with compassion, kindness and integrity towards everyone
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Matt Dugdale
- Job title
- Head of Innovation
- Email address
- [email protected]
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